Willapa Green Crab Disaster

10/22/2025

Here's Tuesdays catch. We haven't had a chance to count them yet. We had to get them out of the boat so we could go harvest clams. We'll count them today. We hate separating them by s*x and counting them. It takes a long time and it's the worst part of the operation as far as we're concerned, But it has to be done as per our permit. We're sure there's over 6000 of them sitting there.
EDIT.. TOTAL WAS 7156 EGC!

10/18/2025

5312 EGC today for team WBS.
Port 1223
M 856
F 367

Oysterville 4089
M 2862
F 1227

10/17/2025

It's been a long time since I've posted on here. I'm sorry for that, but life has been exceptionally trying for me this year. We caught so many EGC today that I had to let you all know that we're still out here despite all the trials and tribulations. Here's today's numbers. 5 crab short of 5000 at 4995 EGC.
10/16/25
Port: 1,120
M- 784
F- 336
Oysterville: 3,875
M- 2,713
F- 1,162

03/04/2025

So the month of February was slow as expected, because of cold temperatures and what seems to be the natural cycle of the EGC.
Month of February
Port of Nahcotta: 3,284 total, EGC.
M- 1,714
F- 1,570 ( 71 gravid)

March is shaping up to be a much bigger haul, and the gravid females are coming on now. Here's the totals of EGC for the Port of Nahcotta the last 2 days.

3/3/25 PoN: 593
M- 320
F- 273 (18 gravid)

Today, PoN: 392
M- 239
F- 153 (10 gravid).

We'll be updating you all more often going forward into summer.

01/02/2025

Hello,
For December Team WBS trapped 10,321 by boat. They also trapped 8,858 from the shore.
In about July my crew's shore trapping was taken over by BK, another shellfish farmer. It was still my crew doing the trapping, but they went under the supervision of BK. This was done so we didn't have to abandon our shore traps.

Totals for 2024 for Team WBS are 265,530 EGC from the boat.
60,573 from the shore since July.
Total for us, land and sea, is 326,103 EGC in 2024.

12/16/2024

Hello all.
For November team WBS had 12,004 EGC from the boat. My team also had about 6,200 from the shore under BK's supervision.
We have 8,215 EGC from the boat so far in December.

11/22/2024

11/20/2024

Team WBS came in early Monday because of weather with 702 EGC. They did however get 2418 EGC including 8 gravid females Saturday.

11/11/2024

Sorry for the lack of updates lately. With commercial salmon fishing, hunting season, shellfish harvest at night, and trapping EGC by day, I've not had the time and energy to keep you all caught up. Trapping numbers are slowing down as expected for October. We, Team WBS, caught 27,625 crab from the boat in Oct. I don't have the shore numbers because another farmer has taken over those traps using my crew. I know it was over 10K EGC from the shore. We're moving traps closer to the port, and will be bringing some traps in, so we use less resources, and can run them in bad weather. A disturbing trend we're seeing is big numbers at the port. 729 EGC 11/6/24, and 819 overnight for 11/7/29. We've been trapping the Port for 2 1/2 years now, and at times thought we had them trapped down there, but we are again getting big numbers there. Where are they coming from? Is it still possible to trap them down? We will keep pounding them in the port and from the shore through the winter, and I'll try to keep you all better updated. Thanks

10/16/2024

https://wdfw.wa.gov/newsroom/news-release/long-term-management-plan-published-controlling-invasive-european-green-crabs

New plan coincides with milestone of more than 1 million green crabs caught and removed since Gov. Inslee’s emergency order in January 2022.OLYMPIA – The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) has published a new long-term management plan for invasive European green crabs (EGC). This ...

10/02/2024

09/19/2024

4944 EGC from the boat today. We weighed them out of curiosity. 562 #